"""Exactly, node is useful for solving problems that you don't have. So you wouldn't use node for them, then. The answer to your own question is your own statement."""
You'd be surprised how many people take the wrong answer, then. I've seen tons of posts touting Node from people with needs and problems that would be better served by other technologies.
"""Node makes it possible to do completely new things that would be difficult to do otherwise."""
Really? Like what? Besides running server side js (something that Netscape did back in the mid-nineties), Node offers nothing that one of the tons of evented servers/libs around could not previously handle. .
I personally like the Mongrel2 approach --combined with some non-blocking framework you got all the Node goodness, plus traditional server goodness, plus messaging, plus language agnosticity.
You'd be surprised how many people take the wrong answer, then. I've seen tons of posts touting Node from people with needs and problems that would be better served by other technologies.
"""Node makes it possible to do completely new things that would be difficult to do otherwise."""
Really? Like what? Besides running server side js (something that Netscape did back in the mid-nineties), Node offers nothing that one of the tons of evented servers/libs around could not previously handle. .
I personally like the Mongrel2 approach --combined with some non-blocking framework you got all the Node goodness, plus traditional server goodness, plus messaging, plus language agnosticity.